Preface

“We can only see a short distance ahead,
but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Alan Turing

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What
people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

Aaron Swartz

“The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the
current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning,
better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.”

Tim Berners-Lee

“What sets this framework apart from all of the others
is the preference for convention over configuration
making applications easier to develop and understand.”

Sam Ruby, ASF board of directors

“Rails is the killer app for Ruby.”

Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

“Life is a distributed object system. However, communication among
humans is a distributed hypermedia system, where the mind’s intellect,
voice+gestures, eyes+ears, and imagination are all components.”

Roy T. Fielding